How MPs from Borys Filatov's entourage are having fun in the Maldives

How Ksenia Sushko quit her lucrative job to become a city councilor in Dnipro

Living beyond her means: how much Ksenia Sushko's expenses exceed her official income

How Ksenia Sushko and her husband Vladyslav Sushko traveled abroad during the war

How the police catch Ksenia Sushko on laundering budget money and still fail to catch her

Why did Boris Filatov's deputy end up in the dock?

Ksenia Sushko, deputy of Dnipro city mayor Borys Filatov, who lives far from her official income, during her six years as director of the Department of Humanitarian Policy, has “earned” more than 10 criminal proceedings for embezzlement and misappropriation of budget funds on contracts for the repair of schools and kindergartens in the city for a total of more than 325 million UAH. The war only helps her: the need to repair shelters in educational institutions is another good opportunity to earn money by signing contracts with dubious companies that inflate prices for materials by almost half.

How MPs from Borys Filatov's entourage are having fun in the Maldives

The Dnipro authorities, it seems, have in principle "gone wild" for real. As was widely reported throughout the country, on September 16, 2024, the subordinates of Mayor Borys Filatov from the "Proposy" party led by him, city council deputies Serhiy Pustovy and Yevhen Kryvosheyev, with their wives and girlfriends, as well as the deputy from "European Solidarity" Kamil Primakov, brightly spent their vacation at the elite Vakkaru Maldives resort in the Maldives, showing off video recordings of the parties on their social networks.

As the media noted, they received permission to travel abroad from the Mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov, who allegedly signed a business trip for them to participate in an international conference on the city's restoration. That is, it turns out that the deputies are also reserved from mobilization, although the deputies are not employees of a local government body who have the right to a deferment. In any case, instead of a conference, the deputies of the mayoral faction spent a considerable amount of money on a luxurious vacation during the war, during which their wives “flashed” only jewelry for the amount that could buy hundreds of drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For example, at a party in the Maldives, the wife of deputy Yevhen Kryvosheyev, Olga, danced in a Van Cleef necklace for almost 13 thousand euros, a Cartie ring for 14,400 euros, earrings for 4,450 euros, and two bracelets for 6,600 and 4,950 euros. The wife of deputy Kamil Primakov was dressed in bracelets by Cartier Love, Petit Modele, and Pave, the total cost of which is over €150,000, and the deputy himself “flashed” a Rolex Skydweller watch for 25,000 dollars.

So, a few tens of thousands of dollars for a vacation in the Maldives, apparently, is not money for representatives of the Dnipro authorities. The head of the "Proposy" faction, Serhiy Pustovy, who decides land issues in the Dnipro City Council, declares millions in income from his activities as a notary every year, from which he earned almost 10 million UAH in 2023 alone.

Deputy Yevhen Kryvosheyev, who is also responsible for land and construction in the city council, declares millions in income from renting out premises and from engaging in entrepreneurial activities. For 2023 alone, at the age of 38, he showed in his declaration 5.4 million UAH of income from entrepreneurial activities, 14.5 million UAH of income from renting out property, and almost 2 million UAH of interest. The head of the Dnipro City Council's land commission holds 1 million 427 thousand US dollars in his bank accounts, and he keeps another 900 thousand dollars in cash. Crazy money.

Or another participant in the Maldivian festivities, Kamil Primakov, is the head of the Dnipro City Council commission on transport and communications and a member of the Poroshenko European Solidarity faction, who, judging by his declarations, regularly receives millions in cash gifts from retired relatives: either UAH 13.2 million in 2021 or UAH 18.5 million in 2022, which should interest the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. In 2023, Primakov earned almost UAH 55 million in income from business activities, and his cash savings amount to another UAH 55.5 million. At the same time, the majority of real estate, which is 15 objects at once — two large houses, several apartments and land plots — the deputy registered in the name of his wife Oksana Primakova.

Roughly speaking, the dollar millionaires from Boris Filatov's team are living their best lives and vacationing in the Maldives, using falsified travel permits from the city mayor, while hundreds of thousands of soldiers are holding the front line so that it doesn't reach the Dnipro. And has anything changed after this high-profile scandal? Despite the protests of Dnipro residents, no statement from Boris Filatov himself, no checks on the grounds for crossing the border, there was only one reaction - MP Serhiy Pustovyi closed his Facebook page.

How Ksenia Sushko quit her lucrative job to become a city councilor in Dnipro

But these are not all the “heroes” of the Dnipro mayor’s team. What is the value of the secretary of the Dnipro City Council, Oleksandr Sanzhara, who, with a salary of only 600 thousand hryvnias per year, can afford to buy a private Piper 28-161 aircraft, and his wife, Tetyana Sanzhara, with an official annual income of 1.7 million hryvnias, having gone abroad during the war, did not live somewhere in a rented apartment, but immediately bought an apartment in Poland.

It becomes clear that the entourage of the mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov has settled in more than comfortably. So we decided to check out other representatives of the Dnipro mayor’s team, and discovered a very interesting person among them — the deputy mayor for executive bodies and director of the Department of Humanitarian Policy of the Dnipro City Council, Ksenia Sushko. And she is interesting because during her 6 years in office she has “earned” 10 criminal proceedings at once, for some of which she received not only suspicion, but also indictment. But this does not force Filatova to stop her corrupt activities - she continues to “drain” millions of hryvnias from the budget as a result of dubious tenders.

However, first things first. A characteristic fact: before moving to work in the Dnipro City Council in the team of Boris Filatov in May 2016, Ksenia Sushko worked at PRJSC “Dokuchayevsky Flux-Domitny Combine” - a joint venture of Igor Kolomoisky and Rinat Akhmetov, which is engaged in the extraction of decorative and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and shale.

According to Ksenia Sushko’s 2016 declaration, during her first 7 months of service in the Dnipro City Council, she officially earned only 142,785 hryvnias, or $790 per month. While during the last four months of her work at Dokuchayevsky FDK, her income was 500,000 hryvnias, or $4,900 per month. While working at the Kolomoisky and Akhmetov plant, Ksenia Sushko was able to save $50,000 and have a good fleet of three cars: a 2011 Mazda CX7 ($40,000), a 2007 Mazda 3 ($28,300), and a 2010 Citroen C5 ($33,775).

With a good salary of almost $5,000 per month in a profitable enterprise and the fact that at that time her husband Vladyslav Sushko was unemployed and had no income, Ksenia Sushko decided to change her job to work in the Dnipro City Council with a salary 6 times lower. Such a choice is difficult to explain, because it can hardly be called career growth. Only if Sushko was already sure at that time that she would not live on one salary and would have many opportunities to earn money from budget funds.

Living beyond her means: how much Ksenia Sushko's expenses exceed her official income

According to the declaration for 2023, today Ksenia Sushko's salary in the city council is 47 thousand hryvnias per month - barely more than 1,000 dollars. That is, in 8 years of work in the executive committee of the city council, she was never able to reach the level of her income before entering the civil service. The husband of the deputy mayor of Dnipro also did not go far in terms of his income: until 2021, only his wife earned in their family, and his registered in July 2021 FOP with the type of activity of repair and maintenance of industrial machinery and equipment brought him an income of only 648 thousand per year, that is, 54 thousand UAH per month. Thus, Ksenia Sushko's family budget today is approximately 2,500 US dollars per month - not a lot of money for a family of three.

But at the same time, let's look at her expenses. In 2020, Ksenia Sushko, at a time when she was earning her own official salary of 28 thousand hryvnias per month in her family, purchased another car for her fleet - a 2017 Audi A8. In her declaration, she indicated that the car cost her only 13 thousand 780 US dollars, at that time - 375 thousand hryvnias. But today such a 2017 car costs around 34-37 thousand dollars, and in 2020 its price was about 50 thousand dollars, but definitely not 13 thousand dollars. That is, Sushko underestimated the declared price of the car by almost 4 times. She paid for it with the previous owner in January 2021, which is discussed below.

And in the same 2020, according to Osint Global, Ksenia Sushko's family flew abroad for a vacation to Antalya, Turkey for 12 days — from October 12 to 23, which could have cost them about $3,500 for three people at that time. At the same time, Deputy Filatova indicated another $5,090 as being saved. So, simple arithmetic: the Sushko family's annual income of $14,415 minus vacation of $3,500 and minus savings of $5,090 equals $5,825, which is left for the life of a family of 3 for a whole year — that is, $485 per month — for food, fuel, clothing, utilities, and so on. And this is not even taking into account his son's studies at the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, where he entered the Faculty of International Economics and Management in September 2020, where tuition costs $3,500 for 4 years. Can we believe that Sushko managed to survive on this money?

In 2021, the family's official annual income increased to $38,565, and savings increased by another $5,775. That year, the deputy mayor of Dnipro sold one of her four Citroen C5 cars for UAH 250,000 — $9,180 (although it is likely that its value was overstated, because that year such a car cost about $6,000), and also received insurance payments in the amount of UAH 130,000 ($4,780). In total, this amounted to $13,960 — exactly the cost of the purchased Audi A8. But we already know that it was impossible to buy it for that kind of money and that its real value then reached $50,000.

Considering that, according to our data, in 2021, the Sushko family again went on vacation not to the banks of the Dnieper River, but to Vienna, where she and her family stayed from September 13 to 22, which could have cost them $4,500, and also that according to her declaration, she was again able to save another $5,775 per year, again simple arithmetic turns out as follows: $38,565 of the family's official income minus $4,500 for a vacation in Vienna minus $50,000 for a new car equals minus $21,710. That is, without daily living expenses, Ksenia Sushko's family should have received more than $20,000 to cover their expenses.

Let's move on. In 2022, the deputy mayor of Dnipro, together with her husband and son, flew from Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates on a plane from Kyiv just two days before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 22. According to our data, they stayed there for about a week. After that, Ksenia Sushko's son, Artur Sushko, did not return to Ukraine, but flew to the capital of the Czech Republic, where he "settled down", starting his studies at the Higher School of Economics in Prague in March 2022. Vladislav Sushko, in turn, returned to Ukraine six months later - at the end of 2022. Ksenia Sushko herself arrived in Ukraine a month later, but not immediately - first she took the same Audi A8 car abroad for her husband, after which she returned permanently.

That is, 2022 clearly turned out to be very expensive for the family of deputy Borys Filatov. According to our rough minimum calculation, they had to spend at least 35 thousand dollars on flights to the UAE, then to Prague, renting housing and food abroad for their husband for six months, and for their son for almost the entire year.

In addition, studying at the Higher School of Economics in Prague for foreign students, according to the website of this higher educational institution, costs an average of 4,400 US dollars per year for a bachelor's degree program. In addition, a student must spend 1,000 euros per month on accommodation, and according to the minimum calculation on food, transportation, educational materials and personal expenses - another 700 euros per month. Thus, according to our calculations, the cost of their son's education costs the Sushko family about 26,840 US dollars per year.

Meanwhile, in her 2022 tax return, Sushko reported income (hers and her husband's) of only $29,100, noting that their savings this year decreased by only $315 — from $55,435 to $55,120. That is, it is again obvious that Ksenia Sushko has numerous unofficial "left" incomes of tens of thousands of dollars, which would allow the deputy mayor of Dnipro to have the above-mentioned expenses.

A similar situation is observed in the 2023 tax return. The official income of the Sushko family this year amounted to $32,365, $26,840 of which they had to spend on their son's education and living in Prague. But, according to the tax return, the savings in cash and bank accounts of Ksenia Sushko and her husband in 2023 increased by $8,000. That is, they were again in the red in terms of expenses, and therefore it turns out that they were again living on some unofficial income.

Throughout her years in leadership positions in the executive committee of the Dnipro City Council, Ksenia Sushko has only declared a 38.5 square meter house on 12 Boryslav Brondukova Street in Dnipro. However, Google Maps shows that at this address there is a small, semi-neglected house, which does not look like the deputy mayor and her family live in.

So, it is likely that Kseniya Sushko only indicates this address as her registration address, but does not declare where she actually lives and what real estate she uses. And these are clearly quite large expenses that have passed by her declaration.

How Ksenia Sushko and her husband Vladyslav Sushko traveled abroad during the war

Moreover, according to Osint Global, after returning to Ukraine from a trip to the UAE at the end of March 2022, Ksenia Sushko traveled abroad several times. Despite the adopted resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 69 of January 27, 2023, according to which the right to travel abroad was restricted for civil servants, Sushko crossed the border of Ukraine 9 times from March 2022 to September 2024. Each time she was outside Ukraine for an average of 5 to 14 days.

Her husband Vladislav Sushko, who, as a conscript of military age, is also restricted from traveling abroad, made two trips outside Ukraine in 2023 - in May and November 2023. On what grounds he crossed the border - it is unknown, which is a reason for separate checks.

In any case, such frequent trips abroad are not cheap, they are still quite large expenses, which, strangely enough, are not reflected in any way on the financial condition of the family of the deputy mayor of Dnipro: with mediocre income and such expenses, they still manage to save money. From which a more than logical conclusion suggests itself - the expenses of Ksenia Sushko and her husband are covered from unofficial incomes of unknown origin.

How the police catch Ksenia Sushko on laundering budget money and still fail to catch her

Although, it is not difficult to guess the nature of the “left” income of the deputy Borys Filatov. In the executive committee of the Dnipro City Council, Ksenia Sushko is responsible for the humanitarian direction - education and healthcare. And these are large annual budgets for maintenance, repairs, construction of schools, kindergartens and hospitals, feeding children and patients, etc., which pass by Ksenia Sushko's hands. It is she, as the director of the Department of Humanitarian Policy, who holds tenders and signs agreements with contractors for the performance of work worth tens and hundreds of millions of hryvnias. Will you be surprised to learn that during her tenure, Ksenia Sushko has already “earned” 10 criminal proceedings under the article of embezzlement of budget funds?

The first was opened back in February 2018. The Department of Humanitarian Policy under the leadership of Ksenia Sushko signed an agreement in the amount of 41 million 876 thousand 439 hryvnias with LLC "Contract Prodrezerv-5" for food services for children in schools in the Amur-Nizhnyodneprovsky, Industrial, Samara and Soborny districts of the city of Dnipro in January 2017. As investigators established, the director of LLC "Contract Prodrezerv-5" Anna Avilko, in a preliminary collusion with the Department of Humanitarian Policy, in order to obtain an illegal benefit, entered knowingly false information into the tender documentation - that the enterprise had the available number of employees of the appropriate category to provide services in full. This allowed the company to receive a contract to service dozens of schools, after which it began to include in the acts of services performed dishes with an inflated weight, which led to budget losses.

However, the case has not gone far: the last court decision on it is dated March 30, 2018, which slowed down the activity of investigators and judges, and no one was held accountable for embezzling the budget for children's food. As a result, this company "Contract Prodrezerv-5" is now engaged in embezzling money for the food of military personnel in clear collusion with the State Operator of the Rear of the Ministry of Defense, and Ksenia Sushko continued her activities to develop the budget funds of the Dnipro.

In 2019, the Dnipro City Council began to repair secondary school buildings. Ksenia Sushko's department announced a dozen tenders for a total of 130 million UAH, all of which were won by the same company - LLC "Budivelna-Gildiya". Later, investigators established that only controlled and affiliated business entities participated in all the biddings, creating a false competition for the victory of the “Construction Guild”. During the investigation of criminal proceedings No. 42019041690000063 dated August 14, 2019, investigators established that “representatives of commercial structures Iryna Nosenko, Oleksandr Kirman and others, with the assistance of the head of the Department of Humanitarian Policy Ksenia Sushko, transferred budget money for school repairs to the shadow economy, seized them, converted them into cash and distributed them among the members of the criminal group”. The theft involved UAH 25 million.

Was it possible to bring Ksenia Sushko to justice here? Not at all. In the case of the embezzlement of UAH 1.7 million, only a professor from the Pridneprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture was sentenced to two years in prison for approving a fake expert examination of the repair of the building of school No. 118. For committing anti-competitive concerted actions that distorted the results of the bidding for the overhaul of the premises of 9 schools, lyceums and gymnasiums of Dnipro, the Antimonopoly Committee fined LLC "Budivelna Gildiya" (which has already been renamed LLC "BK INVESTSTROY GROUP-2021") and put it on the "black list".

But the investigators insured Ksenia Sushko herself from liability: on February 7, 2022, the Dnipro Court of Appeal ruled to leave unchanged the Ruling of the Babushkin District Court of the city of Dnipro on the closure of this proceeding on the basis of the expiration of the statute of limitations for the pre-trial investigation. That is, the investigators dragged on for so long and did not investigate this case that its statute of limitations expired. It turns out that the company is guilty, the professor is guilty, and the head of the department, who held tenders and allocated money, is not guilty and can continue to work with the budget.

The same thing happened with the story of repairs at secondary school No. 5 in Dnipro. Sushko signed two contracts for a total of UAH 39 million with LLC "COM+TRANS". During the repairs, as law enforcement officers later discovered, the contractor used materials of lower quality and cost than those specified in the design and estimate documentation, and appropriated the difference for himself. But this case dragged on for so long that on April 29, 2022, the investigator of the Main Police Department of the Dnipropetrovsk region decided to close the criminal proceedings due to the expiration of the pre-trial investigation period. So, again, the embezzlement of the budget went unpunished.

In 2021, police investigators suspected embezzlement of budget funds in two more projects of the Department of Humanitarian Policy under the leadership of Ksenia Sushko. We are talking about an agreement with LLC "ESG-Ukraine" for the construction of a football field at school No. 74 and an agreement with LLC "Centrino Group" for the overhaul of the facade of building No. 1 of the educational complex No. 144. Both cases have not yet been brought to court, and, most likely, may also be closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Ksenia Sushko has concluded agreements with LLC "Centrino Group" more than once - for the repair of roofs in schools and kindergartens, and more than once the police have opened criminal proceedings against them, all under the same Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Appropriation or embezzlement of other people's property", seeing inflated prices for building materials.

Another 11 million UAH from the Dnipro budget was paid by Ksenia Sushko from the budget of Art Prom LLC for the purchase of school furniture for almost 150 schools. The Accounting Chamber noted in its report No. 33-1 dated November 26, 2019: the purchased furniture does not meet the requirements of the DSTU, which led to budget losses.

And with the beginning of the war, the issue of construction and repair of shelters in schools and kindergartens became relevant. And this is a large amount of opportunities for the development of budget funds. So in August and September 2022, Ksenia Sushko signed more than a dozen agreements with TsSL KOMPANI LLC without competitions and bidding for the repair of shelters in educational institutions for a total of 35 million UAH.

Of course, law enforcement officers later discovered that the prices in the agreements were significantly higher than market prices. In addition, it was discovered that some of the repair work in schools was not carried out by builders who were paid for the work from the budget, but… by employees of the schools themselves, who do not have the appropriate skills and qualifications and should not be doing this instead of their work. And later it became known that in one of the schools the repair work was not carried out at all, although Ksenia Sushko’s department had already paid the company for it in full. Has the head of the department been charged? Has the case been brought to court? No. Although the proceedings have not yet been closed.

And regarding the repairs of shelters in schools, it is not the only one. The police opened another case No. 12023041030002765 on July 12, 2023 on the fact of embezzlement of funds for current repairs of civil defense structures. Ksenia Sushko signed a number of other agreements totaling UAH 26.6 million with individual entrepreneur Bily O.M., private enterprise "Impuls Electro", private enterprise "Akcent S" and LLC "Dnipro-Budservis", which regularly appears in corruption scandals in Dnipro, inflating prices for materials when performing government contracts.

Why did Boris Filatov's deputy end up in the dock? 

Of all the open criminal proceedings on the facts of possible embezzlement of budget funds by the Department of Humanitarian Policy under the leadership of Ksenia Sushko, as you already understood - no results: Sushko manages to avoid responsibility and continue to work with the city budget. However, there are two proceedings in which, surprisingly, the case reached the court.

This is criminal proceedings No. 42023040000000215, opened on March 29, 2023, in which the investigation charged Ksenia Sushko with committing official forgery, as well as embezzlement, embezzlement or seizure of property. According to the investigation, between Ksenia Sushko and the director of the private enterprise "Dneprogorstroy" Oleksandr Tsyptsyura, there was an intention to embezzle funds of the Dnipro City Council in large amounts. On February 11, 2022, 10 days before Kseniya Sushko and her family flew to Dubai for a vacation, she signed an agreement with this company for the amount of 27 million 283 thousand hryvnias for the overhaul of the school on Smolenskaya Street, 1 in Dnipro.

According to the investigation, after the completion of the renovation, the director of Dneprogorstroy Private Enterprise Oleksandr Tsyptsyura entered prices for building materials in the estimate documentation that were 2 times higher than the market price: in particular, the cost of I-beams made of hot-rolled steel came out at 61.4 thousand hryvnias per ton at a market price of 30 thousand hryvnias. And the deputy mayor Kseniya Sushko kindly signed these acts of work performed. As a result, according to police calculations, “almost 1 million hryvnias from the city budget were unjustifiably transferred to the account of a private enterprise.”

It is clear that this million is just the tip of the iceberg, but at least for it the law enforcement officers managed to catch Ksenia Sushko “by the tail”. On September 11, 2024, the police submitted to the Industrial District Court of the city of Dnipro an indictment charging Ksenia Sushko with committing criminal offenses under Part 1 of Article 366 and Part 4 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Judge Taras Logvinenko is considering the case, the first court hearing was held on November 7, but no rulings have been published in the Unified Register of Court Decisions so far.

The second criminal case that reached the court is case No. 12023041650000909 dated February 6, 2023. According to the case materials, back in 2018, Ksenia Sushko concluded a number of contracts with the aforementioned LLC "Art-Prom" for the supply of school furniture for secondary educational institutions in the Central, Samara and Checheliv districts of the Dnipro for a total amount of 3 million 62 thousand hryvnias.

"Later, Ksenia Sushko and her deputy Viktoria Rog concluded additional agreements to the specified contracts, which changed their essential terms, however, the school furniture (student desk, student chair), which was supplied under the specified contracts and additional agreements to them, did not meet the requirements of DSTU GOST 11015-93 "Student tables. Types and functional dimensions", thereby Sushko K.A. in complicity with Rog V.A. committed embezzlement of other people's property by unjustifiably transferring budget funds to the accounts of the supplier LLC "Art-Prom", - the materials of the proceedings state.

The indictment in this case was sent to the Babushkinsky District Court of the city of Dnipro on August 16, 2024, the first hearing was held on September 27, the case is being considered by judge Natalia Yudina.

Thus, during her six years as director of the Department of Humanitarian Policy, Ksenia Sushko has earned about a dozen criminal proceedings under the same article of the Criminal Code - embezzlement and misappropriation of budget funds, most of which she managed to get away with. In Dnipro, the public is already calling her unsinkable, because with so many corruption scandals, she somehow managed to evade the attacks of the right-wingers all this time and continue “her business.”

Indicative in this context was the investigation’s attempt to remove Sushko from her position for the period of the investigation within the framework of criminal proceedings No. 12023041650000909, as well as to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for her, but the courts sided with her: first, the Zhovtnevy District Court on June 14, 2023, chose a preventive measure for Ksenia Sushko only in the form of night house arrest, and then on July 20, 2023, the Dnipro Court of Appeal completely overturned this decision.

Not all dubious tender stories in the Department of Humanitarian Policy of Dnipro have come to the attention of law enforcement officers. Local journalists noticed another company - LLC "Company "Budkom", which three months after its creation immediately became the favorite of Ksenia Sushko. The enterprise was founded on May 2, 2023 by Bozhko Hanna Nikolaevna. The lack of experience in performing work did not scare the Department of Ksenia Sushko, and the company received its first contract as a result of non-competitive bidding in August 2023 for the repair of a shelter in kindergarten No. 310 for more than 2.5 million UAH. And in total, over the year of its existence, the "noname" company received tenders from the Department of Humanitarian Policy for 14 million 522 thousand 942 UAH.

If we were not aware of how Kseniya Sushko skillfully distributes contracts worth hundreds of millions of hryvnias to various companies, which then inflate prices by 2 times, we could not pay attention to this strange moment with the newly created company. But quite recently, Budkom Company LLC was already caught charging abnormally high prices for materials during the reconstruction of a hospital building in the city of Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region for 18.7 million hryvnias. Is there any doubt that the same thing is not happening in the deals with Kseniya Sushko? Is there?

In general, the story looks like this: in Dnipro, located some 100 km from the front line, the local leadership from the entourage of Mayor Borys Filatov has gone out of business: while the deputies who manage the city's land are vacationing in the Maldives with the permission of the mayor, Deputy Filatov is signing agreements and certificates of work performed with fake prices, laundering tens of millions of hryvnias from the budget.

How Ksenia Sushko constantly manages to avoid problems with the law with so many frauds in tenders is a rhetorical question. In Ukraine, few people have any hope for the honesty and incorruptibility of investigators and judges. But the question also arises for the mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, who has been silently watching how hundreds of millions of hryvnias from the city budget are squandered on school renovations. He already had more than enough reasons to dismiss Ksenia Sushko. But he is not doing it. Which is more than typical.

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